1. #1K1hr on Twitter. It forces me to sit my butt in a chair for one hour straight (or multiple hours) with partners to cheer you on because they're also racing towards that word count

2. Create needy, annoying characters. They keep running around in my head and screaming for attention until I get their antics down. When I don't love a character, it's like pulling teeth to write about them.

3. Music. For "The Desired", I found that I wrote best to Dutch Symphonic Metal and French pop-rock. One character only seemed to like Flogging Molly and Death Cab for Cutie. And one entire scene was fueled by a Eurovision song contest winner. When the music didn't jive with the character/scene/story, everything would drag. (For those who are REALLY curious, the Symphonic Metal is "Within Temptation", French pop-rock is "Kyo", Eurovision contest winner song is Lena's "Satellite" I totally recommend all of them.)

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Hi! They're so much fun, aren't they? I can't wait to post some more of my favorite pictures! (My brother in law has some GREAT ones from when we were pretending to be daredevils... and princesses... in Feira castle)